Daston Company manufactures two products, Product F and Product G. The company expects to produce and sell 2,350 units of Product F and 2,250 units of Product G during the current year. Data relating to the companyâs three activity cost pools are given below for the current year: Total Activity
Activity Cost Pools Total Cost Product F Product G Total
Machine setups $30,771 124 setups 139 setups 263 setups
Purchase orders $188,360 780 orders 1,990 orders 2,770 orders
Order size $114,880 3,120 hours 4,060 hours 7,180 hours

Required:
Using the activity-based costing approach, determine the overhead cost per unit for each product. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Answer and Explanation:

The computation is shown below:

But before that the activity rate is

Activity cost pools      Total       Total      Activity rate

Machine setups          $30,771     263    $117

Purchase orders        $188,360   2,770  $68

Order size                  $114,880   7,180   $16

Now the overhead cost per unit is

Particulars              Product G      Product F

Machine setup        $14,508        $16,263

                      (124 × $117)                (139 × $117)

Purchased orders $53,040         $135,320

                   (780 ×  $68)                (1,990 × $68)

Order size       $49,920                $64,960

                 (3,120 × $16)          (4,060 × $16)

Total overhead  $117,468         $216,543

Units                   2,350                2,250

Overhead cost

per unit             $49.98              $96.24

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.